No link between autism and MMR, affirms major study

Doubts about the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine were sown in the late 1990s. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty ImagesThe measles, mumps and rubella vaccine does not cause autism, according to a major study carried out in an attempt to reassure growing numbers of vaccination-doubters, as measles outbreaks surge.Doubts about MMR were sown by the gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield, who hypothesised in 1998 that it was linked to autism. The symptoms of the condition often begin to manifest at a